摘要：Event-based scenarios present a valuable tool in calibrating and refining all
elements of loss estimation and visualization. The visualization concept is
especially important to the decision makers, affording them an understanding
of inventory, hazard, and vulnerability functions. Using the city of Mayaguez
in the western part of Puerto Rico as a test bed, building inventories are
developed to represent some 33 urbanizations and more than 60 years of
construction. Assimilating the outcome from the analysis tools, retrofitting
measures, and uncertainty modeling, seismic and hurricane wind fragilities
are quantified. Long term projections based on the maximum probable loss
analysis are also reported. The changes in existing vulnerability functions
are examined to reflect differences in the building types and construction
practice.
